A graph shows an uniform curve with no secondary curves the following statement is correct:
All are true about Point source epidemic except:
Secular trend of disease refers to occurrence of:
Disease occurs in cycles over short period of time:
All of the following help reduce bias except:
The ratio between the incidence of disease among exposed and non-exposed is called:
Which of the following is not a cause of bias?
Several studies have shown that 85% of cases of lung cancer are due to cigarette smoking. It is a measure of:
A study began in 1970 with a group of 5000 adults in Delhi who were asked about their alcohol consumption. The occurrence of cancer was studied in this group between 1990-1995. This is an example of:
TATA memorial hospital conducted a cohort study on 7000 subjects who were smokers over a ten-year period & found 70 subjects developed lung cancer. Concurrent evaluation of general population in the catchment area of hospital, out of 7000 non-smoker subjects only 7 developed lung cancer. The RR for developing lung cancer is:
In an investigation to study the effect of smoking on renal cell cancer, it is observed that 30 of the 50 patients were smokers as compared to 10 out of 50 control subjects. The odd ratio of renal cancer associated with smoking will be:
In a study of 200 smokers & 300 non-smokers were followed up over a period of 10 yrs to find out incidence of hypertension. Out of 200 smokers, 60 developed hypertension, as compared to 600 non-smokers of which 30 developed hypertension. The risk ratio of the study: